-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Phil Henshaw on 12/06/2007 10:53 AM: > The hard part seems to be to take the first dark step to accepting there > might be a shape of another form that the measures are missing (like the > whole tree or person). It means looking for how to best extend and > complete your image based on the limited cast of the measures at hand. > Interpolation gone wild?? Free form projection perhaps?? Sort of... > You just gotta do something to make sense of the larger continuities > that develop in natural complex systems. What I think we can see > clearly is that our measures and models are highly incomplete.
I think we agree, which normally means there's nothing to talk about! [grin] But, I thought I'd throw out my term for what you're describing: "triangulation". It's not really triangulation, of course. But it's certainly more like triangulation than, say, population sampling. Perhaps we could call it "tuple-angulation"??? [grin] Here's a paper in which "we" (i.e. my outrageous rhetoric is reigned in and made coherent by the authors of the paper ;-) try to describe it: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/1/14/abstract See Figure 1. This particular example is just one sub-type of the general method we're talking about, here, though. - -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-219-3846, http://tempusdictum.com If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. -- George W. Bush -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHWX6LZeB+vOTnLkoRAhfiAJ4ldUf3p2wtlih3736TIp28uVtEZACfWyMf Pi/MX4iy1xD4PrqQNyNvbYo= =9GWs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
